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jdavidb (email not shown publicly)http://voiceofjohn.blogspot.com/J. David Blackstone has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and nine years of experience at a wireless telecommunications company, where he learned Perl and never looked back. J. David has an advantage in that he works really hard, he has a passion for writing good software, and he knows many of the world's best Perl programmers.

The right to vote on foreign wars

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Don't you have faith that the President has unlimited powers in time of war?I kind of like the idea of a public referendum to go to war. Not that it would change much.

The events that precipitated the use of military force in Afghanistan and Iraq would probably have passed easily. When the public or Congress is not given enough information or decide not to take the time to reasonably debate the subject bad things typically happen.

Interesting idea for an Amendment but I think we have too much warmongering in

The events that precipitated the use of military force in Afghanistan and Iraq would probably have passed easily.... Interesting idea for an Amendment but I think we have too much warmongering in us as a country to ever have it succeed.

Depends how you define succeed. Some would argue that if the majority would in fact vote for a war then it should pass. The point of the amendment was not to prevent all wars, and not even to prevent all wrong wars, but to prevent the federal government from committing

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